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#How I built an audio book reader for my nearly blind grandfather

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Last year, when visiting my family back home in Holland, I also stopped by my grand-parents. My grand-father, now 93 years old, had always been a very active man. However, during the presceding couple of months, he'd gone almost completely blind and now spent his days sitting in a chair. Trying to think of something for him to do, I suggested he try out audio books. After finally convincing him -- he said audio books were for sad old people -- that listening to a well performed recording is actually a wonderful experience, I realized the problem of this idea.

####The problem with audio devices and the newly blind. After my first impulse to jump up and go buy him an

danbirken

from sqlalchemy import engine
from sqlalchemy import event

class DbStats():
    def __init__(self):
        self.clear()

    def clear(self):
        self.total_queries = 0
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longbuilder

#include <stdio.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>

#include <openssl/ssl.h>
#include <event2/event.h>
#include <event2/util.h>

dankrause

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joevandyk

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  id serial primary key,                                                                            
  user_id integer not null,                                                                         
  rating integer not null check (rating >= 0 and rating <= 5),                                      
  ratable_id integer not null                                                                       
);                                                                                                  
                                                                                                    
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